I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
The U.S. Justice Department has stationed observers today in New Mexico at the Acoma and Laguna pueblos and at the Torreon Chapter House of the Navajo Nation, according to Steven Robert Allen of Common Cause.
The DOJ observers are there to provide oversight in tribal areas where there have been problems with access for Native voters in the past, Allen said.
“Our field observer said the federal observers were crowding voters a little bit,” Common Cause NM Executive Director Steven Robert Allen told The Independent. “But a precinct judge told them to back off a little bit and they did.”
